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 | Democracies trying to please China Our Correspondent In the 1930s, it was the great powers of Western Europe, led by Great Britain, which followed the disastrous policy of appeasement to avoid another war. Despite the protestations of Winston Churchill, the British Government did its utmost to keep Hitler's Germany in good humour. The pusillanimity of Western nations led to a war which was unprecedented in devastation and bloodshed. In today's world, it is China which is the biggest trouble-maker in the world: the most tyrannical and brutal regimes in North Korea, Burma, Iran, Syria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Eritrea and Sudan enjoy patronage and aid of Beijing. These are the countries which have been identified by the US Department of State as the "world's most systematic human rights violators." What China is doing in Tibet is for all to see. Having killed about 140 people in over there, it is still remorseless and threatens to intensify repression against protesters. Beijing's vice-like grip over Tibet has already ruined it; this, and not some supposedly diabolic "Dalai clique," has caused unrest. As John J Tkacik, Jr, Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the US-based Heritage Foundation, wrote recently, "No one, least of all the Chinese leadership, can claim to be surprised at Tibetan discontent. According to the US Department of State, Chinas Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) remains "one of China's poorest regions, and Tibetans are one of the poorest groups; malnutrition among Tibetan children [remains] widespread… According to 2000 census data, illiteracy among Tibetans was more than five times higher (47.6 percent) than the national average (9.1 percent)—nearly twice as high as in the second-ranked Qinghai Province (25.2 percent). China also seems to be reducing the number of Tibetans employed in local governance… In addition, Chinese state policies have the apparent result of encouraging considerable non-Tibetan migration into the TAR, confiscation of Tibetan-occupied commercial real estate in Lhasa…" China is promoting rogue nations all over the globe and ruthlessly crushing an oppressed nationality within its borders—and what are great democracies doing? Although US Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the moral courage to laud the Dalai Lama and call repression in Tibet as a challenge to world conscience, President George Bush is yet to wake up to China's outrageous behavior. He is scheduled to attend Beijing Olympics. But, typically, it is India that beats all in appeasing the dragon. The Chinese were alarmed at a meeting that was supposed to take place between Vice-President Hamid Ansari and the Dalai Lama. The Manmohan Singh Government immediately responded, saying that no such meeting was on the agenda! Such appeasement would only make China even more brazen and aggressive. Posted on : 3/29/2008 Mail this article to your friend |